Emmanuelle Pierrot

La version qui n’intéresse personne

September 15, 2023
First Novel
320 pages
130 × 197 mm
23 €
9782896986330
978-2-8969-8633-0

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																Emmanuelle Pierrot, La version qui n’intéresse personne
																Emmanuelle Pierrot, La version qui n’intéresse personne

She thought that at the far end of the world, in the Yukon, among a community of punks, she would be able to live freely: sleep with whomever she wanted, love whomever she wanted, openly and without shame. But when a shameless woman dishonors herself there is no limit to the punishment she will have to face.

Arriving in Dawson City at the age of eighteen, Sacha and her best friend Tom finally find the family of anarchists and vagabonds they had always dreamt of. They settle on Sixth Avenue in a cabin without electricity or running water, with Luna, their wolf-dog. From summer jobs to idle winters, from sleepless nights to road trips, from lover to lover, joyful years pass in a world that seems limitless. However, when Sacha falls in love with someone else, Tom feels betrayed: Sacha is nothing more than a whore, an opportunist who must be punished. Tom’s bitterness spreads and the village picks his side. Then the pandemic strikes. In quarantine in an isolated cabin, alone with a roommate whose advances she tries to fend off, Sacha counts the days, while the confined citizens of Dawson hold her to trial.

The author

Born in 1994, Emmanuelle Pierrot grew up in the suburbs of Montreal. Between 2012 and 2020, she lived in Dawson City, Yukon; Vancouver and the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia; San Marcos, Texas; Berkeley, California; and New Orleans, Louisiana. She has worked as a street poet, chambermaid, apple picker and tour guide. She currently lives between Montreal and Trois-Pistoles, in the Lower St. Lawrence. La version qui n’intéresse personne (Le Quartanier, 2023), is her first novel.

Strong points

An iconic setting: the Klondike

A tight-knit, punk, and activist community—the feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist descendants of boxcar hobos and the Beat Generation

The ordeal of a young woman who loses everything when those she loves turn against her because of the words and judgment of a man

The unlimited, unconditional, and mutual love binding a human and a dog

Already a big success in Canada

September 15, 2023
First Novel
320 pages
130 × 197 mm
23 €
9782896986330
978-2-8969-8633-0

“série QR” collection